Tags: Portuguese

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New Romance Linguistics faculty co-publication with UGA alumnus

The article "Processing dissociations between raising and control in Brazilian Portuguese" recently appeared in the First View portion of the Journal of Linguistics. This article was co-published by UGA Department of Linguistics alumnus Dr. Douglas Merchant (PhD, 2019) and Dr. Timothy Gupton. This project started before the Covid-19 pandemic, and is the first manuscript resulting from this collaboration. Congratulations to them! 
Portuguese, Romance Linguistics, Linguistics

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Recent Portuguese PhD student publication

The article entitled "A parte dos Críticos de 2666, de Roberto Bolaño, como análise da globalização" [The Part About the Critics, in Roberto Bolaño's 2666, as an analysis of Globalization], authored by Portuguese PhD student, Fábio Mariano, appeared in the most recent volume of the journal Revista da Associação Brasileira de Hispanistas (abehache). Congratulations to Fábio Mariano! 
Literature, Spanish, Portuguese, Romance Languages


Gabriela Werner Viera Gonçalves

Gabriela Werner is one of the new Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) at the University of Georgia. She holds a B. A. – Teaching License in English Language and Literature Studies from the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR). She has been an English as a second language (ESL) and Portuguese as an additional language (PAL) teacher since 2018. Her research interests include culture studies within teaching-learning…


Mateus Vitor Lima

Mateus holds a degree in English Literature from the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI) and works as a teacher, editor, and text translator. During their undergraduate studies, they participated in teaching and outreach programs that not only promoted the teaching of foreign languages in public schools in their city, and academic community, but also fostered their interest in literature, leading them to delve into the field by researching…


Luana Santos

Luana Santos is an M.A. student at the University of Georgia. Her research interests are Brazilian music and literature. Luana also has an M.A. in education from Universidade Federal de Sergipe and has been teaching English and Portuguese as additional languages for the last nine years, in diverse settings. She likes writing poetry, singing, and practicing the acoustic guitar.


Brandon Carmona

Brandon Ponce Carmona holds a B.A. in Spanish & Portuguese from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently a Master’s student at the University of Georgia, with a focus on Brazilian Popular Culture, musical analysis and Portuguese language acquisition. His research interests include the sociopolitical and cultural effects of Brazilian Funk (Funk Carioca) in Brazil, the modern expansion of the genre and lyrical analysis of Funk…


Fabio Mariano

I was born in São Paulo, Brazil, but have lived in Campinas from my first year of life until I came to UGA. I went to Unicamp, where I got my undergraduate major in Literature Studies, an MA in Literary Theory and History and started a Ph.D in Literary History and Theory right before I came here. During that time, I have also taught Portuguese Language Literature in Brazilian High School and have pursued a career in creative writing. My…

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Fulbright Assistant Brings Northwestern Brazilian Culture to UGA Students

Welcome to Victória Lane Silva! This is her first semester teaching Portuguese to UGA students as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FTLA) in the Department of Romance Languages. She shares her reflections on the importance of language learning and culture: My name is Victória Lane Silva, and I am from Salvador, Bahia — the first capital of Brazil and a study abroad destination for current UGA students who are learning Portuguese.…
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Cris and Cecilia
Brazilian Women Poets in Translation

Cecília Paiva Ximenes Rodrigues and Cris Lira have edited a bilingual collection in Portuguese and English of Brazilian women's poetry. Raízes: Brazilian Women Poets in Translation, published by Venas Abiertas, brings together poems by forty-seven Brazilian writers of different identities and reveals the power of a new literature built from plural experiences and perspectives. The book was conceived and edited by Rodrigues and…
Portuguese


Michel Soares do Carmo

M.A. in Linguistics and a B.A. in Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Portuguese, both from Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG). I have extensive experience in teaching through different levels (middle and high school; university; adult education) and ages (from 12 to 71). Right before starting this PhD Program, I was a awarded a Fulbright Fellowship as Teaching Assistant of Portuguese as a Foreign Language at University Notre Dame…
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